Underwear.



No; 690,194. Patented Dec. 3l,' I901.

J. A. SCRIVEN.

UNDERWEAR.

' (Application filed Mar. 10, 1897.)

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JEREMIAH A. SCRIVEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

UNDERWEAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,194, dated December 31, 1901. Application filed March 10, 1897. Serial No. 626,756. (No model.)

T0 on whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEREMIAH A. SOEIVEN, a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Underwear, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to underwear, and has for its object to produce an undergarment which will snugly fit the body.

To this end my invention consists in the construction hereinafter set forth and claimed.

My invention will be understood by refer-.

ring to the accompanying drawings, which show a pair of drawers embodying my invention, it being understood that other garments having tubular members are also embraced within the limits of my said invention.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front view of a pair of drawers embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail View of the lower ends thereof. v

In the drawings, A is the body portion of the garment, having tubular members B projecting therefrom, which tubular members terminate in angular or pointed gores 0. Secured to the lower ends of the tubular portions B are tubes D, of knitted fabric, which tubes D have integral gussets E, which gussets are secured by their edges to the edges of the gores C, so that the portion of the garment between the lines 1 2 and 3 4 will consist of gores C, with intervening gussets E, of more-elastic material than the material of which the gores G are made. By this means I may make the garment with its tubular portions B of less-elastic material than the knitted fabric D, the said gores E'of the knitted fabric stretching when the legs are inserted into the garment, so that the tubular anklet D and the gores and gussets E will produce a snug fit of the garment at the lower ends of the legs. It will be observed that the gussets E being integral with the lower portion of the anklet there will be no seam traversing upper part of the anklet.

portion E, I do not thereby limit myself to such a structure.

It will be observed from the drawings that the tubular member B of the garment is at its lower end practically forked, the two tri= angular pieces,which I have heretofore termed gores O, (of which one is shown in Fig. 1 on each leg of the gores there illustrated, it being of course understood that a similar triangular piece is on the reverse side of the garment there represented,) forming such fork. In like manner the elastic anklet D is forked by having the triangular projections or gores .E, the fork of the body-piece B meeting and interlocking with the fork of the anklet D. It is perfectly clear that these forklike projections may be greater in number than two on each tubular member and on the corresponding anklet without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

A tubular knit anklet or wristlet forked at its upper or inner end, combined with a tubular garment member, having projecting gores, that enter between the fork members of the anklet or wristlet, the inner edge of the anklet and the outer edge of the tubular garment member being secured together along a zigzag line.

JEREMIAH A. SORIVEN.

Witnesses:

MAURICE BLOCK, FRITZ v. BRIEsEN. 

